Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS by Seagate
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Digital camera reviews of Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
Digital camera Review: Dead Drive After 7 months
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this drive seven months ago and not it won't boot. BIOS doesn't recognize it. I can hear it spinning but nothing else. What a waste!Digital camera Review: Decades of reputation destroyed in a few short years
Summary: 1 Stars
I swore by Seagate until I have had 3x 500gb drives and 1tb 7200.11 drives all fail on me in less than a year. They offered data recovery services for some outrageous fee. They consistently delete and edit their forums to try to skirt the thousands of angry users of their drives - myself included. I smell a class action lawsuit on the horizon.
Use these for backups - if you never want to sleep another good night.
Trust your family pictures to these foolish hard disk manufacturers only if you want a shoddy product and even shoddier customer support.
Digital camera Review: Don't buy oem hard drives online
Summary: 5 Stars
Big and quiet. Five year warranty.
Much faster than my drives from just 3 years ago (though this is true with most new model Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, and Samsung drives).
I buy most of my computer parts, CDs, DVDs, books, etc online.
But I never buy OEM harddrives online. Every site with reviews has customers complaining about drives being DOA or, far worse, going dead two months later. And the reviews mention shoddy packaging.
Hard drives are delicate, the retail boxes are specially designed to absorb shock.
If you have a 1000 gig hard drive full of data, would you rather
a) have it been bought in a specially designed retail box that was delivered to a store as part of a large palette?
or
b) had it wrapped in bubble wrap, placed in a small individual box, and thrown around in several shipping warehouses before you got it.
Digital camera Review: Don't do it. BEWARE!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased one drive , and it went bad in less than 2 days. I got the click of death, and the drive just stopped showing up in bios. I got a replacement drive that lasted about 2 weeks before i started getting clicks and delayed write failures. I could read from the drive but in the end i couldn't write data to it. It would just start clicking and then i couldn't do anything. I do allot of video editing so i had about 300GB on it when i lost it.Digital camera Review: Drive failed within days; replaced quickly and works well so far
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Seagate. I use only Seagate drives because the only drives I've ever seen fail are Western Digital and IBM/Hitachi. Unfortunately, after using this drive for a week or so, it failed catastrophically, failing Seagate's "Long Generic" diagnostic.) Fortunately, I was still burning in the system and hadn't put any important data on it yet.
I used Amazon.com to report the defective unit late Sunday night. Amazon shipped a replacement within hours, and I had it on Tuesday. This new unit has been running fine for a few weeks now and, based on my experience, should continue to for many years.
Conclusion: Always test your system for a week or two. Amazon's RMA system is second to none (especially when compared to NewEgg). It's worth a couple extra bucks for such great service.